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Oh no, it has been a long time since this blog has been updated! A lot has happened in the meantime.

We moved to Lüneburg at last. First we had to say goodbye to our nice but awfully expensive apartment in Helsinki, then we lived at my parents for a few weeks and finally had our stuff moved to Germany before we got on a plane with the cats.

All in all, you could say the last weeks have been really exhausting – the day of the move and flying with the cats was just the tip of the iceberg. We had gotten rid of most of our furniture, clothes and other things, but still, I don’t really recommend moving house twice in a month’s time frame.

We had some amazing thunder, I took this picture from our balcony!

Unfortunately the apartment we moved into was in a not-so-nice state. It had a quite dirty once beige fitted carpet, dirty walls and basically no closet space. Getting rid of the carpet, plus the second carpet underneath (blue this time, with stains that looked alarmingly like blood) and having laminate flooring installed has been one of the most satisfying things in my life!

So we have been renovating the apartment for the last few weeks, and we are almost done with it. Now this place actually looks like home.

Bad news for this blog though: our home doesn’t have an oven and it’s impossible to install one. No more baking for a while! I have had bad time adjusting to this, I want to bake cakes! Cookies! Cupcakes! I do have some unpublished recipes, so this blog will still have some oven-involved baking – and maybe we can visit some friends with ovens… In the meanwhile, it’s time to get creative. I have plans! I’m fantasising about beautiful no-bake cakes, delicate white chocolate truffles and delicious strawberry parfaits.

All in all, everything is well and we’re adjusting to our new life. I’m studying German as much as I can and gathering courage to speak the language, so hopefully in the future I can properly integrate into this beautiful city. Stef already has a job she enjoys and the cats are as happy as ever. I miss people in Finland terribly, but it’s not like I won’t be seeing anyone ever again. There’s only 1161,9 kilometers in-between!